{"id":6888,"date":"2009-02-05T20:16:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T04:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2010-09-13T10:06:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:06:02","slug":"help-save-18000-marriages-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6888","title":{"rendered":"Help Save 18,000 Marriages in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, following the passage of Prop 8 in California, Ken Starr (yes, <i>that<\/i> Ken Starr) filed a legal brief with the CA Supreme Court, on behalf of the so-called &#8220;Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund&#8221;, seeking to nullify the legal marriages of 18,000 same-sex couples in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Arguments will be heard beginning on March 5th, and the Courage Campaign is asking for you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecampaign.org\/page\/s\/divorce\">send <i>your<\/i> opinion to the Supremes<\/a> (deadline: Valentine&#8217;s Day), in hopes that they will invalidate the civil rights abomination that is Prop 8, on Constitutional (if not moral) grounds.<\/p>\n<p>When the Courage Campaign launched their &#8220;Don&#8217;t Divorce&#8230;&#8221; campaign, they asked members to &#8220;send pictures with a simple message for Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the resulting, and moving, 4-minute video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"256\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3089746&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3089746&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"340\" height=\"256\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, following the passage of Prop 8 in California, Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) filed a legal brief with the CA Supreme Court, on behalf of the so-called &#8220;Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund&#8221;, seeking to nullify the legal marriages of 18,000 same-sex couples in the state. Arguments will be heard beginning on March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,122,309,332,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-election-2008","category-gay-marriage","category-lgbt","category-rights-and-freedoms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6888"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}